Freddie Mac·Software Engineer

Freddie Mac Software Engineer interview experience

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McLean, VAPosted Feb 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process kicked off with a video-based interview screen through Yello where the questions were mostly standard behavioral prompts.

After that, I had a shorter follow-up with a manager on Teams that combined behavioral questions with technical discussion based on my resume.

What stood out was the structure and pacing: the behavioral side came first, and then the live conversation used my background to pull in the technical parts. I didn’t run into live coding either; the focus was more on describing what I’d done and how I thought about it. The final stretch felt like a normal manager-level conversation—less of a puzzle, more of a fit check.

Overall it took about two months from start to finish in my case, and I

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